Liège, Walloon Region, Belgium
Co-founder of Xpress Biologics, a new Contract Service Organisation dedicated to the production of biomolecules for pre-clinical proofs of concept Expertise in molecular biology and the development of microbial expression systems (yeast and bacteria) for the production of recombinant proteins and plasmid DNA for Biotech & Pharma companies. Laboratory, people and financial management skills.
Organization of the Sales & Marketing activities. Identification of collaborations & partnerships. Prospection.
Evaluation and optimization of new or existing technologies for the production of biologics (proteins and plasmid DNA). Development of a large scale "GMP" pDNA production process. Development of antibody fragment production in P. pastoris.
Organization of the DNA array production, hybridization and analysis activities. Design and development of new DNA array microchips.
Set-up and supervision of a high-throughput sequencing platform.
Supervision of the sequencing activity.
Identification of androgen-independent prostate cancer markers.
Identification of angiogenesis inhibitor for the treatment of cancer.